My son is very eager to break five minutes in the mile, and just for fun, asked ChatGPT what his race plan should be. It came back with a first 800 in 1:49-1:51, which is just a little bit faster than a pace to break the world record of 3:43.
Thankfully he knows the actual pace to break five minutes--it's 2:30 for the first 800 meters of course--but it strikes me that AI hallucinations can not only infantilize people by doing work that they ought to be doing themselves, but in doing so, can actually endanger people. Had he actually tried that advice, he'd have come through 400 in about his PR pace (61 seconds), then collapsed in the second quarter.
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